# Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

_With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life_

By Mary Wollstonecraft.

"Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a conduct book published in 1787. Wollstonecraft's first published work offers practical guidance on educating women from infancy through marriage for Britain's emerging middle class. She encourages mothers to teach daughters analytical thinking, self-discipline, and marketable skills while criticizing fashionable society's superficial education. Though focused on preparing useful wives and mothers, certain passages anticipate her later feminist arguments. The book blends moral instruction with child-rearing advice, reflecting eighteenth-century debates about women's roles in society. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Women -- Social and moral questions; Young women; Women -- Conduct of life

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